I thought I read that the 1000 uses the 400/500 series logic to drive it. If
that's so, then I wonder why the macro to generate the flight plan isn't
retrofitted to the earlier units.

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Jim Carter
Rogers, Arkansas
"Peter Clark" wrote in message
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On Sun, 13 May 2007 14:09:15 -0400, Roy Smith wrote:

In article ,
"Jim Carter" wrote:

This question particularly applies to the CAP mission pilots in the
group:

we have been flying GX50 and 60s in our CAP birds, but I'm playing
with
a GNS430 in a private aircraft. There doesn't seem to be a correlation
of
the SAR functions in Garmin's unit like Apollo's.

I'd like to know how others handle the missing functions. Do you
manually
create a flight plan with waypoints at the end of each grid leg? 30
years
ago we only had to use pencil and charts, but now we have to demonstrate
integration of the GPS into our search patterns. The Apollo makes it
easy
with the SAR map page; what am I missing on the Garmin?

My understanding is that Apollo put specific functionality into their
boxes
to allow flying SAR grids specifically because they were chasing a big CAP
contract. So, it's not surprising it's not in the Garmin boxes.

The CAP version of the G1000 182 has search grids.